[Vision2020] Megaload Monitors Arrested Saturday for Obstruction

Mon Aug 29 11:07:30 PDT 2011

I am not taking a stand in support of the protesters , but on seat belts, when I am pulled over(very infrequently) I unfasten my seat belt in order to get my billfold out om my back pocket.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Moscow Cares moscowcares at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:19:23 -0700
To: Shirley Ringo ringoshirl at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Megaload Monitors Arrested Saturday for Obstruction

> " . . . shall have a safety restraint properly fastened about his body at all times WHEN THE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION." [my emphasis]
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>  
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
> 
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:13, "Shirley Ringo" <ringoshirl at moscow.com> wrote:
> 
> > Relevant part of Idaho code:
> > 
> > 49-673. Safety restraint use. (1) Except as provided in section 49-672, 
> > Idaho Code, and subsection (2) of this section, each occupant of a motor 
> > vehicle which has a gross vehicle weight of not more than eight thousand 
> > (8,000) pounds, and which was manufactured with safety restraints in 
> > compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 208, shall have a 
> > safety restraint properly fastened about his body at all times when the 
> > vehicle is in motion.
> > 
> > (2)  The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 5)  Enforcement of this section by law enforcement officers may be 
> > accomplished only as a secondary action when the operator of the motor 
> > vehicle has been detained for a suspected violation of another law.
> > 
> > Shirley
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> > To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Cc: "Jane Kauzlarich" <indigo3239 at msn.com>; "Kathy Judson" 
> > <ponysnpups at gmail.com>; "Borg Hendrickson" <chicory at wildblue.net>; "Friends 
> > of the Clearwater" <foc at friendsoftheclearwater.org>; "Fritz Knorr" 
> > <fritzknorr at gmail.com>; "Jeanne McHale" <jeannemchale at hotmail.com>; 
> > "Fiddlin' Big Al Chidester" <alchidester at juno.com>; "Brett Haverstick" 
> > <bhaverstick at yahoo.com>; "Marilyn Beckett" <marilynbeckett at gmail.com>; "Lin 
> > Laughy" <lin at wildblue.net>; "Lois Blackburn" <LoisB at q.com>; "Friends of the 
> > Palouse Ranger District" <fprd09 at gmail.com>; "Wild Idaho Rising Tide" 
> > <wild.idaho.rising.tide at gmail.com>; "Helen Yost" 
> > <helen.yost at vandals.uidaho.edu>; "Dinah Zeiger" <dzeiger at uidaho.edu>; "Sally 
> > Perrine" <sperrine at potlatch.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 8:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Megaload Monitors Arrested Saturday for 
> > Obstruction
> > 
> > 
> >> The Idaho State Police may be onto something here, V-peeps.
> >> 
> >> If ANY of you know, or even suspect, anyone who may have sat in their 
> >> vehicle . . . while parked . . . NOT wearing their seat belts . . . 
> >> contact local authorities IMMEDIATELY . . . Before this becomes a criminal 
> >> epidemic.
> >> 
> >> At first these offenders will hide behind the excuse, "But, officer, we 
> >> were just parked here.". The next thing you hear about them is they are 
> >> strapped in a gurney . . . with IVs in their arms . . . praying for a call 
> >> from the governor.
> >> 
> >> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >> 
> >> Tom Hansen
> >> Moscow, Idaho
> >> 
> >> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change 
> >> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> >> 
> >> - Unknown
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Aug 29, 2011, at 7:35, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Courtesy of today's (August 29, 2011) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
> >>> 
> >>> ------------------------------
> >>> 
> >>> Megaload monitors arrested Saturday for obstruction outside Coeur d'Alene
> >>> 
> >>> Wild Idaho Rising Tide community organizer, fellow opposition member
> >>> refused to give ID to state trooper
> >>> 
> >>> Two protesters of the Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil megaload that began its 
> >>> trip
> >>> from Lewiston late Thursday were arrested outside Coeur d'Alene on U.S.
> >>> Highway 95 while monitoring the shipment's progress early Saturday
> >>> morning.
> >>> 
> >>> Helen Yost said she and another woman had been part of a group that was
> >>> monitoring the load early Saturday when they were arrested by an Idaho
> >>> State Police trooper.
> >>> 
> >>> They were later charged with obstruction and failure to wear seatbelts.
> >>> 
> >>> Yost is community organizer for Wild Idaho Rising Tide, the environmental
> >>> action group that has been leading the fight against Imperial
> >>> Oil/ExxonMobil's plans to move oil refinery equipment through Idaho on 
> >>> its
> >>> way to the Kearl Oil Sands Project in Alberta, Canada,
> >>> 
> >>> As the shipment made one of its scheduled stops, Yost said the SUV she 
> >>> was
> >>> a passenger in pulled over to the side of the road ahead of the shipment
> >>> to wait to get back behind it.
> >>> 
> >>> An ISP vehicle parked in front of them on the side of the road, Yost 
> >>> said,
> >>> and a trooper approached them. He told them they were not wearing their
> >>> seatbelts and asked for their identification. Yost said she told the
> >>> trooper their seatbelts were off because they were parked at the time and
> >>> refused to give the trooper her license as she was a passenger, while the
> >>> other woman, who goes by Cici, did not have identification to give.
> >>> 
> >>> Yost and Cici were arrested and placed in separate ISP vehicles, Yost
> >>> said, and taken to the Kootenai County Jail.
> >>> 
> >>> Yost said there had been talk of a protest in Coeur d'Alene that never
> >>> picked up momentum.
> >>> 
> >>> The driver of the SUV, Sharon Cousins of Viola, ended monitoring of the
> >>> shipment and went to support the two women at the jail.
> >>> 
> >>> "Nobody continued monitoring at that point that we know of," said Cici.
> >>> 
> >>> Yost said while they spent about 18 hours in jail, supporters came up 
> >>> with
> >>> funds for their bonds, which were set at $300 each.
> >>> 
> >>> "It was an attempt to intimidate people who are here to monitor these
> >>> loads," Yost said of the arrests. "They didn't have any reason to arrest
> >>> us and bring us to jail like they did."
> >>> 
> >>> Cici said they were not read their Miranda rights or allowed to make a
> >>> phone call until they had been incarcerated for about 12 hours at the
> >>> jail, and she only gave her information to police when she was told she
> >>> could be held for an indefinite length of time.
> >>> 
> >>> "Interestingly, they referred to us at the jail as the Highway 95
> >>> protesters," she said.
> >>> 
> >>> ------------------------------
> >>> 
> >>> Not wearing seat belts?  The horrors!!
> >>> 
> >>> Book 'em, Dano!
> >>> 
> >>> Obstruction?!?!?  WHAT OBSTRUCTION?
> >>> 
> >>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >>> 
> >>> Tom Hansen
> >>> Moscow, Idaho
> >>> 
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